IRT Presents The New Collectives’ Production of
To whom should I complain? Did I tell this, Who would believe me?
Vienna is in chaos and every citizen is under surveillance. When the city finds itself in the hands of a new leader aiming
to crush every unsavory impulse, how can order be restored and who will be believed when no one is what they seem?
M4M, a modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, is an exploration of lust, power and corruption,
where everyone is willing to gamble their morality, risk their soul for sin, and sacrifice the innocent in the name of justice.
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IRT THEATER
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In continuing with The New Collectives' mission of giving back both artistically and financially, established during our 2017 Season,
we will be collecting donations at the show for Women’s Justice NOW.
Women’s Justice NOW aims to build "a future of social justice and equality for all women by mobilizing communities,
developing new activist leadership, and providing direct help and advocacy to women.”
Thank you to our audience's generosity, we were able to raise $160 for Women’s Justice NOW!
we will be collecting donations at the show for Women’s Justice NOW.
Women’s Justice NOW aims to build "a future of social justice and equality for all women by mobilizing communities,
developing new activist leadership, and providing direct help and advocacy to women.”
Thank you to our audience's generosity, we were able to raise $160 for Women’s Justice NOW!
Please Note: this play includes on stage violence and direct references to sexual violence
Film by Ingrid Larson • Music by Elizabeth May
"Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, stripped down to its grittiest essentials...feels shockingly relevant."
-Theatre is Easy
-Theatre is Easy
Cast:
Sam Leichter* (Duke) is delighted to be a part of M4M. Sam is the Education Director for New Collectives, and previously appeared in The Trojan Women and The Witches. Recently: Measure for Measure and Henry IV pt. 1 (Hip to Hip Theatre Co.), double duty as Don John and Dogberry in Much Ado (New York Shakespeare Exchange), and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (The Night Shift). Sam received his MFA from Rutgers, BA from Bates College, and is a member of AEA. www.samleichter.com
Alejandra Mangini (Isabella) is ecstatic to be making her New York stage debut! A New York based stage and film actor, she holds a BFA in Acting from Boston University and a diploma in Classical Acting from LAMDA. Favorite BU credits include Varya in The Cherry Orchard, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing and Leilah in Uncommon Women and Others. Thank you to all family and friends for your constant love, support, and of course, pep talks to keep going! Check my website for exciting new projects coming in 2019. www.alejandramangini.com.
Michael Markham* (Angelo) New York: Platonov in The Spectacular Demise of Platonov at Shapiro Theater, Les/Arnie in Rosemary and Time, Frizer in christopher marlowe’s chloroform dreams at The Red Room with Lunar Energy, Giant in Giants at HERE, and The Singing Soldier in Mother Courage and Her Children at The New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Film and television: Law & Order, The Decades of Mason Carroll, When Things Fall Apart, Home Office, Fumes, Lies, and Blind Date. Regional: A Little Night Music, Hamlet, Julius Caesar. Training: The Juilliard School. He currently lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children. www.MichaelMarkhamOnline.com
Sarah Moore (Mariana) is a New York City based actress/creator/producer, originally hailing from Florida. She is one of the founding members of The New Collectives. Sarah graduated from the Hartt School in Hartford CT summa cum laude with a BFA in acting and a minor in English. She has studied abroad in England focusing predominantly on Shakespeare, toured the country performing on a national tour, and has worked all around the city! Recent acting credits include: Life Brief & Glorious (The New Collectives @ IRT Theater), Steve Got Raped (The New Collectives), The Witches (The New Collectives/Wandering Bark), A Christmas Carol (The Hartford Stage Company), The Importance of Being Earnest (Royalty Free Theater) and a national tour of Encore!! (Chamber Theater). Other favorite productions include Stage Door, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pride and Prejudice, Coram Boy, Julius Caesar, 12 Angry Women, Marat/Sade, The Man Who Came to Dinner, and Our Town. When she isn't collaborating and creating works of theater, Sarah spends her days at My Gym on the UES as the Director and Lead Teacher of the facility. Sarah is very passionate about The New Collectives and strives to spread their mission and bring theater to a vast audience base through her creative, producing and theatrical work.
Giverny Petitmermet (Escalus) is a New York based actor/producer/director/creator originally from San Diego, California. She is the Artistic Director/Executive Producer of The New Collectives and the lead teaching artist for The Young Collectives education program. Giverny is also a founding member of BREAD Arts Collective. Some of her New York credits include: Life Brief & Glorious (the New Collectives); The Trojan Women (The New Collectives); Waiting for Lefty (BREAD Arts Collective); The Witches (The New Collectives/Wandering Bark); Rise and Fall (BREAD Arts Collective); All’s Fair (Six Western) (Oracle Theatre Co); The Crucible (Sink or Swim Rep), The Burning House (Studio Maya Workshop); WAKE (Aisling Arts).
Training: Boston University, BFA in acting; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA), British American Drama Academy (BADA).
www.givernypetitmermet.com
Training: Boston University, BFA in acting; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA), British American Drama Academy (BADA).
www.givernypetitmermet.com
Khiry Walker (Claudio) is thrilled to join The New Collectives’ production of M4M! Off-Broadway credits include Drunk Shakespeare, Three Musketeers (CTH), and Three Fifths (3LD). Khiry is a graduate of SUNY Purchase and a Brooklyn, New York native who is forever grateful for the unwavering support of his friends and family.
Ben Watts (Lucio) is very happy to be joining The New Collectives on this exciting adaptation. He has previously worked with Shakespeare Festival St. Louis and the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. Past credits include Angels in America, Psycho Beach Party, The Normal Heart, and Little Shop of Horrors. Ben is also an experienced cabaret performer. His solo show Wonderful Enough had great success in St. Louis, and he hopes to bring it to New York very soon. wattsbg.com
*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.
Creative Team:
Justin Ivan Brown (Director) is the Artistic Content Curator/Event Manager for The New Collectives. He appeared in their 2018 production of Life Brief & Glorious. Justin has spent the last 20 years performing as an actor and activist, blending the two with companies such as The Disability Project, Variety Children’s Charity, Interaction Theatre Co., and now The New Collectives. Justin has also been a Teaching Artist for the past decade educating children about theatre and working to expand the imaginations of young people across the U.S. Some of his Off Broadway/New York credits are The Human Incubator (SheNYC Festival), LaBute New Theater Festival 2016 & 2017 (59E59), Warp Speed: A Sci-Fi Parody (MITF). New York: Wendy Darling & Peter Pan (Piper Theatre), Rechnitz (New Stage Theatre Company), Life Brief & Glorious (The New Collectives); What Elsas Knew in a Peril (New Stage Theatre Co.), Summertime (Columbia Stages), Duet (Secret Theatre). Check out his upcoming projects at www.justinivanbrown.com Follow FB/IG @justinivanbrown
Lauren Winston (Stage Manager) is a stage manager, currently in her third year studying at Montclair State University for her BFA Theatre Production and Design (Stage Management Concentration) degree. Her most recent stage management credits include: Baby, Wedding Band: A Love Story in Black and White, Civics and Humanities for Non-Majors, and Company. She has also recently worked as a Wardrobe Head for Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Ingrid Larson (Set/Projection Designer) 2nd Stage Uptown, MITU580, Under St. Marks, The PIT, Barn Arts Collective, Actors Theatre Workshop, Secret Theatre, Abrons Art Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Adobe Rose Theatre (Santa Fe), Criterion Theatre (Maine), The Strand Theatre (Maine), Greenhouse Theatre (Chicago), Merle Reskin Theatre (Chicago), and The Den (Chicago). Multiple Associate/Assistant Scenic/Projection design credits including Lincoln Center, The Public, Minetta Lane and Signature Theatre in New York City, as well as Chicago Opera Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Maltz Jupiter Theatre (Florida), North Dakota State University, Arena Stage (Washington D.C.) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Ingrid has also been a key member of Derek McLane’s design team for multiple Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. She is a member of BREAD Arts Collective. Graduate, DePaul Theatre School, B.F.A. Scenic Design. www.ingridlarson.com
German Martinez (Sound Designer) is a freelance Sound Designer and Audio Engineer based in NYC. He received his degree in Sound Design and Management from Montclair State University in May 2018. As an Engineer, he welcomes challenging musicals to program and run, and unique venues to build sounds systems in. As a designer, he seeks original works of theatre to develop, and strives to provide his services in order to make art from the heart. German hopes to create and support art that represents all people of color. Some of his involvement include: Sesar; The Chinese Lady (MaYi Theatre), The Blank Page Musical; UnSeamly; The Assignment (Luna Stage), Home Is A Verb (Carnegie Hall Studios), The Little Prince (UCPAC).
Keep up with his work on his Instagram: GermanTheSoundDesigner
Keep up with his work on his Instagram: GermanTheSoundDesigner
Natali Arco (Lighting Designer) is a Cuban-American lighting designer and assistant. Currently, she serves as the the Lighting Director at Samsung 837 in the New York. BFA Lighting Design, Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. Selected Credits: (NYC) Off-Top, The Tank; Winterfest, Hudson Guild Theatre; 59E59; The York Theatre. (Regional) Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Fabulous Fox, STL; Winter Opera Saint Louis; Consuming Kinetics Dance Company. Assistant Credits: Prototype Opera Festival, Grandoozy Music Festival, LaMama, Disney World Creative Entertainment, Variety Children’s Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Opera Theatre Saint Louis. For samples of Natali’s work visit: nataliarco.com
Jon Ontiveros (Lighting Designer) designs for theatre, opera, dance, immersive and site specific installations. BFA from The Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. Recently he has worked at Capital Repertory Theatre, The Muny, San Antonio Opera, 59E59, Goodspeed Musicals, and The Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis. www.jonontiveros.com
Dara Affholter (Costume Designer) is very excited to be working with The New Collectives again. She is currently the Assistant Costume Shop Manager for Papermill Playhouse. Her other credits include the Costume Apprenticeship for the Juilliard
School and Costume Shop Internships for New York Stage and Film and New York Theatre Workshop. Design credits include Roller Dynasty (Sprout Works), Athena (The Hearth), Life Brief & Glorious (The New Collectives), For Annie (The Hearth) Sleep Walker Man Walkthrough Wall (Dallas FIT Festival), and various other costume design and assistant costume design positions. daraaffholter.weebly.com
School and Costume Shop Internships for New York Stage and Film and New York Theatre Workshop. Design credits include Roller Dynasty (Sprout Works), Athena (The Hearth), Life Brief & Glorious (The New Collectives), For Annie (The Hearth) Sleep Walker Man Walkthrough Wall (Dallas FIT Festival), and various other costume design and assistant costume design positions. daraaffholter.weebly.com
Elizabeth May (EMay) (Music Director) is a playwright, musician, and performer based in Brooklyn. Original works include, Zodiac Math, produced by The New Collectives at MITU580, Vengeful Moon, a song cycle of love and revenge written for the solar eclipse as a part of Tapp’s Art Center’s ECLIPSEploitation Event, Old Souls, an original folk musical, performed in residence at The Barn Arts Collective, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Brooklyn Presents: Missionary Style for The Upright Citizens Brigade, and The Trojan Women for The New Collectives (Song Writer/Music Director). Other performing credits include, The Edge of Glory for Lady Gaga and Google Chrome, Stop the Virgens at St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Rocky Horror Show and The Traveling Musicians for The Barn Arts Collective, Sarah Flood in Salem, Mass., #serials, and Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love for The Flea Theatre, At The Rich Relatives for Target Margin, and TL;DR as a part of Prelude Fest and The Northwest New Works Festival. Her band is called Pollens. Follow them on their website, pollens.band See more at elizabethmay.com
Production Photos by Craig Mungavin
Special Thanks
Wendy Merritt, Aaron Kisner, Valerie Insardi, Craig Mungavin,
Kori Rushton, Daryl Shelton, and everyone at IRT & Materials for the Arts
Wendy Merritt, Aaron Kisner, Valerie Insardi, Craig Mungavin,
Kori Rushton, Daryl Shelton, and everyone at IRT & Materials for the Arts
Equity Approved Showcase
M4M is presented as part of IRT's 3B Development Series.
IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT’s mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work. Some of the artists we have supported include Young Jean Lee, Reggie Watts and Mike Daisey.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts, and The Nancy Quinn Fund, a project of ART-NY.
M4M is presented as part of IRT's 3B Development Series.
IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT’s mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work. Some of the artists we have supported include Young Jean Lee, Reggie Watts and Mike Daisey.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts, and The Nancy Quinn Fund, a project of ART-NY.
